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Natura e contesto – Nature and context

Nature is to be considered everything that borns, lives, grows, exists and dies. All the phenomenons that transforms from the primeval material, that is both the organic matter and the inorganic matter that exists spontaneously. In other words the nature is all that is present in origin and that develops without artificial intervention. Nature is a condition in which every material or phenomenon, vegetable, mineral, animal is included and contributes to create an environment by interacting with every element. The environment becomes all that is visible and walkable, all the landscapes where there is origination, life and death. If the nature is the condition of existence, the main and the spontaneous, it is to be said that there is a natural condition and it is a way of being.

The context it’s the background in which the natural environment founds itself extrapolated today, namely a “place”. The restricting concept of a “place”, or a location, creates confines inside of which we put a determinated habitat to recount it as if it was disconnected to everything else. An example could be that today we rarely live in nature, we go to visit the nature and we experience the natural condition only by going far from the places we live everyday, highly builded environments that can be created only by the human intervention with artificial materials. We visit a primeval forest, a desert or a beach without buildings, and that’s what makes us see the nature as a place where to go sometimes. Few areas right now are still out of anthropization processes, the natural environment is not anymore in a wild state. The nature becomes a “place” because there is another different type of scenario to differ from it, it is because of the built environment that we perceive the nature as a place, even if we should be part of it and living it every moment, this way of seeing the environment is creating a schism between humans and nature.

Every built space is a place creator, among all the interventions that humans realizes on the environment there are that made for adaption by taking advantage of the morphology of the environment and those designed to completely modify its state.

Arranging structures from innatural materials to create landscapes that are only thought as functional, but instead are ruining the environment puts the human into an imposed landscape that creates a peculiar condition, in other words what does the human creates around itself if not a deceit?

Fernando Pessoa’s heteronym Alberto Caeiro tells about a village of dimensions so small that from it you could see a bigger part of the world compared to what you can see from the city, and because of that the village is said to be greater than the city, he says: “Because I am the size of what I see, and not the size of my own height.”

Cities are of the “size of our own height”, the built landscape it is a view that we are used to and we forget that the buildings and the streets are layers of materials, a scenery that we are producing for ourselves, and the nature inside of this plan, after being removed, is seen as something that has to be inserted into the urban order in specific designed spaces we call “green spaces”.

The green space is the place where nature is been positioned by humans for necessity, it’s the nature without its condition. It’s programmed and forced to be restricted in a marked space. Since human beings are also part of the nature, excluding theirself from the natural condition they are building spaces that are building the human itself.

Derealization and depersonalization feelings, named without accepting their definition as patologies, but instead as an adequate reaction to a landscape that it’s confused, are a tentative to recognize the environment around us.

There is an actual sense of irreality in every construction, it is by renew our interior condition into seeking the natural one that we could move on back to nature.

The green space is meant to be the nature included in an urban setting, but it’s its delimitation and we are living the same constriction as a tree in a flowerbed when we are arranged on the sidewalk or everytime we walk the places that are designed for that and we avoid walking in the ones that are not. Nature restricted.

The built spaces that creates landscapes are imagined and produced by human beings for their comfort, and because of that these constructions could be imagined in a different way. Without human beings industry this places wouldn’t exist spontaneously.

It follows that we inhabit places that may not exist. We are living inside a landscape without conceiving ourselves in different kind of habitats from the built one.

The built environment is eating out day after day untamed areas. We will increasingly lack discerning what is natural from what is not.

Transforming the environment to make it more suitable to necessities of survival it is an innate animal behaviour. Mud, branches, protein fibers such as silk becomes the matter to build shelters, nests and lairs. Human beings are now using artificial materials that are not compatible to the natural environment and this causes damage to every living specie.

A man once, while observing sprouts growing from underneath the asphalt, said: “This is the strength of nature”. He was thinking of a nature that can always regenerate itself, even across unfitting terrains for life. The fact that we see this strength means that we perceive that there is a need to exercise it, there is a power that needs to be used to contrast the obstacles.

We see this strength, because we see nature’s effort for rising above constriction.

Deresponsabilizing ourselves by believing that nature can always win every adversity, no matter our conduct on the environment, isn’t going to preserve the natural condition.

We don’t have any supremacy on nature since we are part of it.

The nature is not a place, nor an entity but a condition of existence and we stand today in the same context.

Nature and context:
Nature is to be considered everything that borns, lives, grows, exists and dies. All the phenomenons that transforms from the primeval material, that is both the organic matter and the inorganic matter that exists spontaneously. In other words the nature is all that is present in origin and that develops without artificial intervention. Nature is a condition in which every material or phenomenon, vegetable, mineral, animal is included and contributes to create an environment by interacting with every element. […]The context it’s the background in which the natural environment founds itself extrapolated today, namely a “place”. The restricting concept of a “place”, or a location, creates confines inside of which we put a determinated habitat to recount it as if it was disconnected to everything else.English text in the description of the images